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Corazon de Leon wrote:

Tomous wrote:Apart from my mate accidentally booking us into a hotel that was also a brothel, Glasgow really surprised me by how nice it was

My girlfriend hates it here(she's from Sydney) but hers is the only negative review I've ever heard of the place. People don't realise how decent a place it is to live and work in.

I can kind of understand an Australian not liking Glasgow, coming from Sydney to be fair

Tomous wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:

Tomous wrote:Apart from my mate accidentally booking us into a hotel that was also a brothel, Glasgow really surprised me by how nice it was

My girlfriend hates it here(she's from Sydney) but hers is the only negative review I've ever heard of the place. People don't realise how decent a place it is to live and work in.

I can kind of understand an Australian not liking Glasgow, coming from Sydney to be fair

It's the big city to little city transition that's gotten her, I think. She's struggled to adapt to it and thinks Edinburgh will be a better fit. I don't begrudge it, but I find myself being quite defensive when she tells me how much she wants to move away, even though I'm not *technically* Glaswegian myself.

Heroin is more traditionally found in Edinburgh, dual.

Edinburgh Far too many annoying students but apart from that it's great.

Scotland is doing well in this poll.

From those in the list I went with Edinburgh, but my real choice would have been Cardiff. For such a small place it has a huge amount to recommend it.

Dublin.

What is Bradford doing in the poll?

Snowcannon wrote:What is Bradford doing in the poll?

It's from the list that Moggy posted, top 10 UK cities ranked by population (excl. London)

Birmingham 992,000
Leeds 720,000
Glasgow 560,000
Sheffield 512,000
Bradford 467,000
Edinburgh 450,000
Liverpool 440,000
Manchester 420,000
Bristol 380,000
Wakefield 316,000

Edinburgh's nice just the weather's shite, do prefer Glasgow as the people are friendlier but then the weather's even worse. Not sure how Edinburgh can be criticised for being grey when Glasgow's all just one block of colour too.

Although actually that's pretty much the same across the UK and northern Europe, much prefer the south since they bother to liven up their streets a little.

Photek wrote:Dublin.

Is that a request to rejoin the UK?

Birmingham - decent
Leeds - never been, not heard good things though from people who've lived there
Glasgow - been briefly, seemed depressing as strawberry float
Sheffield - never been
Bradford - never been
Edinburgh - been briefly, centre seemed nice, outskirts not so much
Liverpool - decent
Manchester - not great
Bristol - quite nice, bit student-y though
Wakefield - never been, didn't even know it was a city

Lotus wrote:Wakefield - never been, didn't even know it was a city

You'll thank me for that if "UK Cities beginning with W" ever comes up on a quiz.

Voted Sheffield mainly because I was born there.

No votes for Bradford, Leeds or Wakefield at the moment. West Yorkshire is obviously a very popular place.

Ironhide wrote:Voted Sheffield mainly because I was born there.

Shouldn't you be Steelhide then?

Ironhide wrote:Voted Sheffield mainly because I was born there.

Don't worry we won't hold it against you.

Currently a 4 way tie between Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester. Can one of those cities manage to take the crown before the end of the poll?

Wakefield being on the list at the expense of Cardiff or Coventry is ridiculous. That 316,000 population is for the whole district, with an area of 130 square miles!

Moggy wrote:Currently a 4 way tie between Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Manchester. Can one of those cities manage to take the crown before the end of the poll?

Better that it ends in a tie.

Moggy wrote:

Photek wrote:Dublin.

Is that a request to rejoin the UK?

Took us 900years to get yee out so not thanks, I think poll should include the british isles though, Dublin would come third population wise on that list.